Re-Posted From The Daily Caller While the GOP has both eyes on changing the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and capturing control of the U.S. Senate, House Republicans still need to be looking in their rear-view mirror for a rump Democratic … Continued
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Ford O’Connell At Politico’s Arena: Hotly Contested Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Shows Right Is Unprepared For 2012
The hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race should not be seen as a rebuke of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s leadership. Whether the Badger State electorate realizes it or not, Gov. Walker’s passage of collective bargaining legislation was in his constituents’ … Continued
Ford O’Connell At Politico’s Arena On Tim Kaine’s 2012 Bid For U.S. Senate Seat In Virginia
The calculus behind Tim Kaine’s U.S. Senate bid isn’t about the former governor and current DNC chairman’s strength against any of the likely GOP candidates for the Senate seat or how his close ties to President Obama might affect Kaine’s … Continued
Gallup: Mike Huckabee Is 2012 GOP Presidential Frontrunner As Obama Announces
With President Obama officially announcing his candidacy for re-election on Monday, the question of whom he will run against becomes even more relevant. Three possible Republican candidates — Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich — are currently best situated … Continued
Ford O’Connell At San Francisco Chronicle On Obama’s Reelection Bid And Mike Huckabee
“Obama is certainly beatable. It’s just that the eventual GOP presidential nominee has to move with James Bond-like precision in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Nevada,” said Ford O’Connell, chairman of the Conservative Civic Forum PAC, whose … Continued
All Eyes Turn To Wisconsin Supreme Court Race On Tuesday
A conservative judge’s campaign for reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become the next front in a growing multistate Republican effort to limit the power of organized labor. The once-obscure judicial race, which will be decided in an election Tuesday, … Continued
Ford O’Connell At Politico’s Arena On President Obama’s 2012 Reelection Announcement
Team Obama really had no choice but to come out and announce the reelection bid now. Conservative operatives led by Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and the tea party are pounding the president around the country on everything from the … Continued
Democrats Eye 2012 Takeover Of House
As part of the effort to win back the House majority, Democrats are eyeing dozens of districts that have tell-tale political signs of Republican incumbents who might be ripe for takedown. While more than a few of them constitute an … Continued
GOP Budget Plan Would Cut $4 Trillion Over Decade And Transform Medicare
Republicans will present this week a 2012 budget proposal that would cut more than $4 trillion from federal spending projected over the next decade and transform the Medicare health program for the elderly, a move that will dramatically reshape the … Continued
Democrats Pin 2012 Senate Hopes On Federal Budget Showdown
Democrats, who are barely clinging to a majority in the Senate, seem to be pinning their 2012 election hopes on exploiting the current budget impasse that has Republican leaders under pressure from Tea Party activists not to compromise. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., … Continued